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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.

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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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The most seditious is the most cowardly.
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It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
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Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
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